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Briefing Chat: Hantavirus — what this outbreak reveals about the disease

Published: 15 May 2026 at 15:26 Europe/London

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In this episode:

00:34 What questions remain about the hantavirus outbreak?

Nature: Hantavirus outbreak exposes uncertainty about how disease spreads

Nature: There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus: what that means for future outbreaks

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